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[[File:WatchmenRoster_4803.jpg|link=Watchmen (film)|frame|Far left: [[More Dakka]] and [[The Determinator|Determination]].<br />Center left: [[Badass Normal|Badassery]], [[Only Sane Woman|Sanity]] and [[Most Common Superpower]].<br />Far right: [[Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?|Gadgets]] and [[Cool Airship]].<br />Center right: [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Training]], [[Improbably High IQ]], and [[Crimefighting with Cash|Money]].<br />Center: [[Physical God|Omnipotence]].]]
{{quote|''"Your ability to summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my... [[Badass Normal|BMX skills]] look a bit redundant."''|The BMX Bandit, on his companion the Angel Summoner, ''[[That Mitchell and Webb Look]]''.}}
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** And King Crimson from Part 5 has some sort of time-skipping ability, which enables him to "skip" any attack used against him. The only way Giorno managed to beat him was by {{spoiler|manifesting an even more overpowered ability: the power to nullify the consequences of anything}}.
** Subverted in the finale of part 6: Pucci is defeated {{spoiler|1=thanks to one of his own abilities, which allows him to remove the powers or souls of others and store them as CDs. He accidentally causes Emporio to gain the ability to control weather because Pucci had removed the ability from Weather Report, leading to Pucci's final defeat.}}
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* ''[[NEEDLESS]]'' has people called Needless, who control powers such as fire, water, gravity, magnetism and whatnot. It is explicitly stated in the anime multiple times, that each user can only have one "fragment", which is the series' fancy term for "ability". Both the protagonist Adam Blade, and {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] Adam Arclight }}have the ''memorization'' ability -- which allows them to memorize and use ''any'' skill they have encountered. {{spoiler|Of course, Adam Blade conveniently forgets his superpower thanks to [[Plot Induced Stupidity]] during his fight with the Bishojo Squad and gets his ass handed to him.}}
** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]'s power is even more broken - unlike Blade's it gives him not an exact copy, ''but a more powerful version''. In their fight, when using exact same copied skills, Adam was completely stomping Blade.}}
** Anime's [[Gecko Ending]] also gave same [[Mega Manning]] to {{spoiler|Saten}}.
* Psi abilities in ''[[Psyren]]'' tend to have this happen. While training plays an important role, you have some game-breakers like Shiner's teleportation, and Nemesis Q's everything. The biggest winner though would have to be Shao, who is a combination mind-reader, power-nullifier, tracker, a Rise user capable of keeping up with Kyle, and capable of controlling and redirecting other people's PSI.
* Most of the lead roles in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha]]'' series. Nanoha is a normal girl who just ''happens'' to have enough power to level pretty much anything. (Which she does.) {{spoiler|Subaru is a cyborg designed to kick ass,}} Caro was exiled as a child for simply being ''too powerful''; able to summon a dragon, and another ''ancient'' dragon ''at the same time''. Hayate found a book that not only gave her ridiculous magic power, but 4 unquestioningly loyal and incredibly powerful ancient knights. Touma found a similar book, a gunblade that gives him a beam cannon, and a hot love interest who seems to work as a magical reactor. On the other hand Teana Lanstar got a non-lethal gun and Erio got a spear. ...Thanks for playing, you two!
** {{spoiler|Touma also got a [[Super-Powered Evil Side]], a genetic illness that will kill him slowly unless he kills other people, and a magic tome that will gladly do so for him whether he likes it or not. So it's less jackpot and more [[Blessed with Suck|6s all the way]]}}.
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** Ultear has the ability to control [[Time Master|Time]] allowing her to age and decay anything except people.
** Rustyrose is a [[Reality Warper]] who's limit apparently is his imagination.
** Freed can write runes that can trap people in forcefields that will only let victims out if they can fulfill a specific condition, and will severely punish them if they "break the rules".
* {{spoiler|Kakeru, the main character}} from ''[[Psycho Busters]]'' won the lottery by a mile. Some of the most powerful abilities in his world include seeing the future and telekinesis powerful enough to collapse a building or turn pens into deadly weapons. ''His'' ability is to {{spoiler|edit ''time'' around himself. Essentially giving him reality warping in a ten meter radius, as well as the ability to rewind, slow or accelerate time as he desires as long as he activated his Perfect World beforehand. What's more, the power instinctively kicks in and turns back time should Kakeru be killed, meaning that even a surprise attack will be ineffective.}}
* In ''[[Freezing]]'', the [[Amazon Brigade|Pandoras]] have the ability to summon weapons, all of them being different but usually being some sort of close range combat type. There is nothing to show that the girls get to pick out the weapons for themselves. For some reason, Elizabeth Mayberry lucked out and ended up with ''[[Frickin' Laser Beams]]''.
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** Iceman at his full potential is not just [[An Ice Person]], but has full control over moisture itself. This includes absorbing bodies of water to increase his size, teleportation (not quite, but close enough) by traveling through water vapor, and he's physically immortal, since he can reconstitute his body from ''any'' source of moisture, and even killed a villain by drawing the water from her body.
** A more recent addition is Darwin, whose power is to grow [[New Powers as the Plot Demands|new abilities based on the situation at hand]]. His powers were initially supposed to be purely defensive, but apparently the situation then grew out of hand, and writers started adding ''offensive'' to ''overpowered''. For instance, when fighting the Hulk, his powers merely teleported him into the next state for his protection... but that same fight saw one of the first offensive uses of his powers, when Darwin sucks the Gamma radiations out of the Hulk.
* Speaking of the Hulk, he has Unlimited strength, accelerated healing, the ability to breathe underwater, dynamic durability, and the ability to leap as high as Superman, and unlike Supe's he has a high resistance to [[Mind Control]]. Also, as a bonus, Bruce Banner is one of the smartest men in the Marvel Universe, to the point where [[Norman Osborn]] decided he preffered fighting the Hulk.
** Sage started as just a secretary with photographic memory, but experienced [[Power Creep, Power Seep]] until now she's telepathic, super-intelligent, more [[Badass]] than Wolverine, able to control minds, and even able to enhance other mutants' powers.
** Occasional [[Big Bad]] Apocalypse's mutant powers have never been quite clearly defined. He's generally portrayed with immortality, super-strength, laser beams, shape-changing, regeneration (when he doesn't have [[Nigh Invulnerability]]), telekinesis, technopathy, and super-intelligence<ref> He once used technology to capture ''Loki'', a rare instance of that character facing Science > Magic (though he eventually broke out...with difficulty); also, that thing about Hulk resisting [[Mind Control]]? Well guess who managed to make the Hulk his bitch?</ref> and he once demonstrated minor intangibility. Essentially he has every single physical superpower, most of which ultimately could be derived just from his high-level shape-shifting. Most of his higher-end powers though come from taking advantage of Celestial technology that he discovered long ago. As a result {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil|he owes the Celestials a favor]], and they actually rescued Apocalypse from certain death once just to make sure he couldn't escape the deal.}} His default powers are immortality, super-intelligence and his bizarre skin colour; he also still had superhuman strength, speed, durability, endurance and healing, not to mention he was [[Large and In Charge|something like 12 feet tall]], but they were no-where near as nerfed as he is nowadays.
** [[Depending on the Writer]], Magneto really lucked out where superpowers are concerned. He went from menacing the X-Men with girders to controlling the entire electromagnetic spectrum, which ''should'' make him pretty much unbeatable. And at times he ''was'' virtually unbeatable.
** In general, any Omega-level mutant falls to this, with the possible exception of [[Great Lakes Avengers|Mr. Immortal]] (depending on whether being absolutely incapable of dying by any means is [[Living Forever Is Awesome|winning]] or [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|losing]]). Essentially, an Omega-level mutant has no upper limit to whatever specific thing their powers control. Note that many famously ultra-powerful mutants like Magneto and Apocalypse are ''not'' classified as Omega-level (though Magneto probably should be). Let's not think about [[Squirrel Girl]].
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** Non-heroic comic book. That means all other characters get no gimmicks, so their character development have to be focused on ''character''. And so you had purely normal, believable personalities who were at least as interesting as the guy with the powers, or moreso.
** Shade's powers were just as often the plaything of his own issue-riddled subconscious. And the more adept Shade got at using his powers, the more colossally his fucked up mind could fashion a [[Mind Screw]].
* The [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]] villain, the Super-Skrull, has all the powers of the F4, the Skrulls' natural ability to shapeshift and his own hypnosis based powers.
* On ''[[Runaways]]'', Nico's Staff of One lets her do ''anything'' (with the apparent limit of resurrection being off-limits)...but only once per effect. Lately, she's gained some measure of magic ability on her own, at least enough to fly around on her own power.
** She also found out that, in a cross over with the Young Avengers, that she can recast a spell if she says it in a different language. Go count how many languages there are out there, and then look at that "weakness"
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* Averted in ''[[With Strings Attached]]''; the C'hovite gods {{spoiler|(actually Jeft)}} deliberately make sure the four have a good mix of powers with minimal overlap and maximum utility so that none of them are left in the dust by the others.
** Though their idea of “utility” isn't Paul's [[Blessed with Suck|by any means]]....
** Although no one had anything to do with Ringo's magic, the others were deliberately maneuvered into specific artifacts, or (in Paul's case) built up, to make sure they could all do different things and be useful in different situations.
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** The Inquisitors from the same series win the Lottery by cheating. They practice the art of Hemalurgy, which lets them steal powers from others and apply them to themselves (by having someone pound ''[[Body Horror|giant metal spikes]]'' through the still-living victim's body and into their own!). As a result, your basic Inquisitor is basically a Mistborn with even stronger abilities. Later on they even find out that it's possible to steal Feruchemical powers with Hemalurgy, as well, which is even ''more'' powerful; by itself, Feruchemy is pretty dangerous, but when you combine it with Allomantic power in a single body, the interaction between the two lets you break several of the basic rules of both types of power.
** The real winner of the lottery is the Lord Ruler, who {{spoiler|Was born a feruchemist, and then found a metal called Lerasium that gives whoever burns it the powers of a Mistborn. This combination makes him essentially a Physical God - By storing attributes using Feruchemy, and then burning the Metalminds, you can get back more of an attribute than you stored. You can then store this, and so on. Combine that with the regular powers of Allomancy, and you have someone who you need to channel a Shard to stop.}} That is why the Lord Ruler, although we don't see much of his powers, can slaughter armies without difficulty
** In the Alloy of Law, we find that there are no Mistborn or Feruchemists any more - instead, you have Mistings (who have one Allomantic power) and Ferings (who have one Feruchemical power) and the rare Twinborn, who have one of each. Most Twinborn win the lottery (at least withing the setting), doubly so for someone who has the same metal for both powers (allowing them to store the power in a Metalmind, then burn it for a greater return, which they can then store and so on) but their are varying levels of Twinborn.
** Some Twinborn combinations are useful, but nothing special - the ability to store warmth (Brass) combined with the power to conceal Allomantic power use (Copper). Others have combinations of powers that are very useful in certain areas - someone who can store wakefulness (Bronze) and has super-senses (Tin) makes a great sentry, while one of the characters, Wayne, can create a bubble of sped up time around them (Bendalloy), while also storing health (Gold) - this makes him a brilliant one on one combatant.
** And then you have the protagonist, Wax, and the antagonist, Miles, who have some of the best combinations available. Wax can store his weight (Iron) and telekinetically push metals (Steel). Since when you push on something, the overall motion is determined by your relative weights, then Wax can level city blocks and chuck train carriages at people, not to mention he can push on things to leap great distances, while storing his weight to travel further and survive the huge falls. Miles is a double Gold Twinborn - while the allomantic Gold power (which allows an Allomancer to see what they might have been if they had made different choices in the past) is not particularly useful, by compounding Gold he can give himself a healing factor that puts Wolverine to shame, and he has suffered so many injuries in the past he doesn't feel pain any more - both of which he illustrates when he blasts himself in the face with a shotgun to prove his power to his men.
* Fred Saberhagen's ''[[Book of Swords]]'' gives each of the twelve eponymous swords a superpower. One provides uncanny luck, another instills loyalty, and a third creates illusions. Several tend to kill their wielders. And then there is Shieldbreaker, which instantly detonates any weapon used against it (spells and ''demons'' count as weapons), including other Swords, and makes the wielder immune to other Swords' effects like the aforementioned luck and illusions. Its weaknesses are small enough to be the surprise conclusion to both ''Swords'' series.
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* Lyta Alexander of ''[[Babylon 5]]'' describes herself as the telepathic equivalent of a doomsday weapon. She's pretty much right.
** Sheridan pulls a [[No Sell]] on her, when she gets in her [[A God Am I]] mood, as both were [[Touched by Vorlons]].
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The End of Time", {{spoiler|the Master, of all people, wins the [[Superpower Lottery]], due to [[Came Back Wrong|coming back wrong]] and Lucy throwing a [[Spanner in the Works]]. He can [[In a Single Bound|fly]], [[Shock and Awe|shoot lightning]], has [[Super Strength]], and oh yeah, gains energy by [[I'm a Humanitarian|eating people]].}}
** Ofcourse this is alleviated by the fact that he [[Cast From Hit Points|Casts From Hit Points]], and must ''constantly'' feed to just stay alive, and is driven even further to insanity by his insatiable hunger.
* Dr. Shinkuro Isaka from ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]'' wasn't content with just the base powers granted by his [[Transformation Trinket|Gaia Memory]]...so he did a few "upgrades". The Weather Memory gives Isaka effectively every [[Elemental Powers|Elemental Power]]; at times he's demonstrated [[The Power of the Sun|intense sunlight]], [[Making a Splash|rain]], [[Shock and Awe|lightning]], [[Blow You Away|tornadoes]], and [[An Ice Person|Snow]]. And that's ''still'' not enough, as he keeps [[Complete Monster|giving people overclocked Gaia Memories that eventually kill him and allows him to add that Memory's powers to his own]]. {{spoiler|This also results in his [[Karmic Death]] when the Gaia Memory connector ports all over his body consume him after the Weather Memory is finally destroyed.}}
* While this does not apply to the main cast of ''[[Sanctuary]]'', it works for the Five, who all took the same [[Super Serum]] made from [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] blood. Of all of them, [[Nikola Tesla]] is the only one who became an actual vampire. Plus, he also got electrical powers. John Druitt gained the power of space-time [[Teleporters and Transporters|teleportation]]. [[Sherlock Holmes|James Watson]] became a super-genius. [[The Invisible Man (novel)|Nigel Griffin]] gained the power of [[Invisibility]]. Helen Magnus got... [[Immortality|longevity]], something Tesla got as part of the whole package. These powers, though, are inherited by their children. Notably, Griffin's granddaughter had his power. Also, Ashley Magnus, being the daughter of Helen and Druitt, did not originally manifest any powers. Those had to be activated by the Cabal and were, basically, a combination of Tesla's vampirism and Druitt's teleportation.
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** A note on that ghost that can kill with a thought: Because Yuyuko's body is [[Sealed Evil in a Can|sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi]] she can't be exorcised, and because she's already dead she can't really be hurt. Her manipulation of death lets her kill anything that isn't already dead or immortal. Except that she can control dead spirits and she's stronger than all of the known immortals. Actually getting rid of her would entail unsealing the most dangerous being in the setting. Fortunately, she fights using the same formalised rules as everyone else and is a genuinely good person, because probably no one could stop her otherwise.
** Koishi Komeji won the super power lottery by sealing one power ''away first'' - [[Mind Reading]]. This somewhat backfired in an unintended way, now she is immunie to it and can make herself invisible by hiding her presence from the minds of others. This together with her natural magical power and understading of how her enemies tick could end in active [[Mind Control]] used on literally everyone if she felt like it. What is she doing all the time? Enjoying the scenery.
* In ''[[Wild Arms 3]]'', Maya Schroedinger, [[The Rival]] to the heroine, has the power to adopt ''any power depicted by a character in the book she last touched.'' She is never a party member, though. She uses this to be a martial artist, a mage, and [[The Gunslinger]], among other things.
* The main character of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' gets this. He's spent sixteen years becoming a master thief and then founds out that he {{spoiler|is actually the Angel of Death for his adopted world, complete with Badass powers. Unfortunately, presumably due to his lack of training in use of these powers he can only use them in [[Limit Break|Trance]]}}
* The Main Characters of ''[[Persona 3]]'' and ''[[Persona 4]]''. Whereas the other party members gain the ability to summon a Persona that grants them special powers, the Main Characters can potentially summon ''any'' Persona (and can switch between them freely). However, the ''Persona 3'' lead {{spoiler|paid one ''hell'' of a price for it (specifically, one 'die at age 16 and your soul used as a padlock on the jail for the life-eradicating [[Eldritch Abomination]] for all eternity' price)}}, and the reason why the ''Persona 4'' protagonist didn't have the ''Persona 3'' protagonist's problems is due to {{spoiler|being literally [[Touched by Vorlons|touched by a Japanese goddess.]]}}
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** [[Persona 3|Minato]] may actually take it a step further, since not only can he potentially summon any Persona ever and freely switch between them, but he ''also'' can summon ''two Personas at once for a [[Combination Attack]]'', with effects ranging from 50% healing and evasion increase... to throwing ''[[The End of the World as We Know It|the freaking Apocalypse]]'' at his enemies.
* ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'' had the Ground Zero Incident. In a barren wasteland populated only by thousands of warring military units, a mysterious egg hatched, releasing streams of light that transformed anyone they touched into demons. ''[[Our Monsters Are Weird|Any kind of demons]]'', mind you - from small, pathetic amorphous blobs to the highest seraph of Heaven. The big drawback? They're all [[Cannibalism Superpower|Cannibalism Superpowers]]. [[Horror Hunger]] and [[I'm a Humanitarian]] become two realities you cannot avoid, ''ever''. [[Demonic Possession|And then there's the case of having your mind overwritten by the demon's]]...
* In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'', each legendary hero has a Noble Phantasm which reflects some part of their legend, and is unique to their character... Except for {{spoiler|Gilgamesh. ''His'' Noble Phantasm, "Gate of Babylon", is a portal to his treasury that allows him to summon pretty much every Noble Phantasm except Excalibur, to pull out individually or launch in missile barrages as he wishes (since he's the original King of Heroes, he used to own all of the world's treasures, and thus all the original Noble Phantasms).}} He also turns out to have ''another'' Noble Phantasm atop of this which is classified as "anti-''world''" in power (the other Noble Phantasms topping out at "anti-castle").
** {{spoiler|Archer}}'s ultimate technique is pretty similar (specifically {{spoiler|his [[Mental World|Reality Marble]], [[Field of Blades|Unlimited Blade Works]]}}), though story-wise he never gets to show its full potential. He can {{spoiler|create an imitation of any weapon (specifically swords), that he has ever seen, giving him an endless supply of ''disposable'' legendary weapons}}. A "Broken Phantasm" is supposed to be an unthinkable technique, destroying the hero's proof of heroism (and well, their weapon) [[For Massive Damage|for one-time Massive Damage]]. {{spoiler|Archer}} can do this... Whenever he wants.
** Finally, Saber herself has a wee touch of this. She starts out by 'merely' having an invisible sword for a Noble Phantasm, freakishly powerful regeneration and the best close combat skill of all the Servants. {{spoiler|She then turns out to be Arthur, the strongest example of this class, and her 'true' Noble Phantasm, Excalibur (which also has a neato wind-based attack as part of being revealed), is a grade A++ anti-castle noble phantasm and the second strongest of all the weapons. She then turns out to have a ''third'' Noble Phantasm on top of this, Avalon, whose stated ability is basically to make her invincible -- she uses it to block Gilgamesh's abovementioned "anti-world" attack, without it taking a dent. And on ''top'' of this she used to possess a fourth weapon, the Sword in the Stone, which is strong enough to kill the toughest servant seven times over with a ''single blow''... And it's ''weaker than the one she already has''.}}
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* ''[[League of Legends]]'' features a ''very'' diverse cast. Although competitive balance equalises their relative power level, the characters range from a dude with a sword to an ice elemental phoenix, from a pirate with a regular flintlock pistol to a desert god from outer space, and from a fat drunkard with a beer keg and no other powers to an armoured angel of war.
* Conduits from ''[[Infamous (video game series)|In Famous]]'', especially the second game, [[Shock and Awe|Cole]] and his partners [[Playing with Fire|Nix]] and [[An Ice Person|Kuo]] got off with easily controlled and amazing powers, the second game's big bad, {{spoiler|Bertrand, wasn't so lucky, his power involves turning into a fifty foot beserk monster and transforming other people into smaller monsters.}} An NPC pointed this out in a dead drop.
* [[Mass Effect]]: [[Player Character|Commander Shepard]] can potentially obtain a ton of totally-not-super [[Applied Phlebotinum|biotic powers]], in addition to impressive weaponry. Other biotics, many of whom qualify as [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] in their own right, only have a few abilities. Among the abilities a high level biotic Shepard can have: [[Super Speed]], [[Telekinesis]], [[Energy Ball|Energy Balls]], [[Stuff Blowing Up|psychokinetic explosions]], [[Life Drain]], [[Deflector Shields|force]] [[Barrier Warrior|fields,]], and the ability to [[Gravity Master|spawn a miniature black hole]]. And while most non-biotic classes rely more on skill and external weaponry, ''all'' classes, including the biotic ones, get [[Super Strength]] (though only [[Captain America (comics)]] level), [[Healing Factor|regeneration,]] and immunity to poisons.
** Of all the enemies, [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Banshees]] from the third game are the only ones who really fit. While other [[Our Zombies Are Different|husks]] made by the Reapers get some simple ability or weapon (Marauders have guns and [[Deflector Shields]], Ravagers spit acid and have cannons mounted on them, and Brutes are just really strong), Banshees for some reason get an impressive repertoire of abilities, namely: [[Energy Ball|Energy Balls]] that double as [[Life Drain]], [[Deflector Shields|rapidly regenerating force fields,]] [[Power Floats|levitation,]] [[Teleport Spam|teleportation,]] [[Super Strength]] (they can pick up and ''impale'' a thousand pound krogan in full armor with one hand), and ridiculous [[Super Toughness|durability.]]
* Asura from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]''', who is basically The Hulk on steroids, and post {{spoiler|Karma Fortress Mantra Reactor surgery}} no longer has the bad side effect of destroying himself with his anger. He can also {{spoiler|Become the size of the planet and travel across the cosmos at extreme speeds, destroy volleys of planets being thrown at with casualy with energy blasts, and punch straight through a planet several hundreds of times bigger than his planet sized self with ease.}} It's noted that even after shrinking back to human size, he keeps all the above powers, and just gets more and more powerful as the finale goes on, even after reverting to his base form.
* In ''[[Prototype]]'' and ''[[Prototype 2]]'' you get the ability to run faster than cars, jump 10 stories high and a block across, glide, transform, create blades, [[One-Man Army|take on an entire army without breaking a sweat]]. Let's just say in this game you hit the Jackpot!.
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** Here's a list of her known powers: Superhuman strength and speed. Flight, both fast and agile. Energy blasts. Energy sword like a light saber that can breach most shields. Insane regeneration (highest known regen rating). IR and UV vision. Total life support (space, etc.). Power over gravity. Produces antimatter. Has survived a nuclear blast. Death Blow, which can rip apart souls. Can warp reality around her, causing massive destruction and insanity. Various other warper powers she is still discovering and has poor control over. Eats demons. Partial immunity to power nullification.
** Basically the entirety of Team Kimba is this, with even the less powerful members having some aspect that can blow away most competition.
* On [http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=175748 this] forum thread, this is the whole idea. By trying your luck you may get powers like [[Memetic Badass|a Chuck Norris Kick to the face]]<ref>Yes [http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Chuck_Norris_Round_House_Kick_To_The_Face that's a power]</ref>, or [[A God Am I|omnipotence]]. Then again others get the short end of the stick and get the power to know when you're asleep, or God forbid, the power that turns you into a [http://powerlisting.wikia.com/wiki/Fate_Link vodoo doll]
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* ''[[South Park]]'' parodies this with its [[Affectionate Parody]] of [[Anime]], "Good Times With Weapons." Cartman gives himself [[New Powers as the Plot Demands]] until Kyle calls him out on it & makes him choose only one. He chooses the power to have any power he wants. Stan takes all his powers away. When the others need him to have powers again, he chooses the power to turn Kyle into a [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chicken.]]
* In ''[[Static Shock]]'', Edwin Alva's son, Edwin Alva Jr., learned to control the Big Bang gas that gave every other metahuman in Dakota their powers, essentially rigging the Superpower Lottery. He was doing pretty well with it, too, up until he took on too many powers at once and [[Power Incontinence]] turned him into stone.
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has the occasional lottery winner. As Phantom Limb put it while convincing some un-powered senior villains to do his bidding:
{{quote|"I can kill a man by [[Touch of Death|simply touching him]]. Now what were ''your'' special powers again?"}}
** Doctor Orpheus also counts: He can teleport, astral project, shoot energy from his hand, remove souls, set things on fire with his mind, mind wipe people, raise the dead (as long as he has a body and the soul is willing to come back), fly, detect ghosts, create a force of purple lightning that shut down a large robot and liquefied a group of Nazis, remove someone's arms (and not by cutting them off: they actually disappear), telekinesis, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|predict when someone will die]]. And that's probably not all of it.
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* In ''[[Wakfu]]'', followers of the god Xelor ([[I Am Not Shazam|who are also called Xelors]]) have the ability to ''manipulate time''. [[The Hero]], as well, can bend space by creating portals.
* ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' has the android [[All Your Powers Combined|AMAZO]]. His ability, to copy those of others, gave him the full set of the Original Seven's powers by his first appearance. Then he went into space for a while, and when he came back, he had enough power to teleport ''an entire planet''. Because ''it was in his way''. The entire extended League and [[Green Lantern]] Corps failed to even scratch him. At the end of it all, the person to defeat him was {{spoiler|[[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work|Lex]] [[Lex Luthor|Luthor]].}}
* ''[[Generator Rex]]'' has this to an extreme extent. The main cast is as follows: A [[Badass]], but still [[Badass Normal|entirely human]] MIB, [[The Smart Girl|a brilliant scientist]], [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|a talking monkey]] who is the [[Butt Monkey]] of the [[Worf Effect]], an [[Unfazed Everyman]] [[Action Survivor]]...And [[Person of Mass Destruction]] whose current power set includes [[De-Power|Depowering]], [[Super Strength]], [[Made of Iron]], flight, [[Technopath|technopathy]], mid level mechanical [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifiting]] which gives him a wide array of [[Shapeshifter Weapon|weapons]], and [[Serial Escalation|more.]]
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', a unicorn's magical powers are typically restricted to one specialty, usually associated with their Cutie Mark. Since Twilight Sparkle's magical specialty ''is'' magic, she doesn't have this restriction.
* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', Miss Martian's abilities were changed from the comics so as not to have too many heroes with super strength. So in place of her strength is telekinesis. All her other powers are the same, but they include being 'the most powerful untrained telepath' (according to J'onn), shape shifting (which can be used to become near invisible), flight as a result of the previously mentioned telekinesis, also the telekinesis mentioned before is strong enough to collide two helicopters without a breaking a sweat.
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